Nancy Dollar
LightNews LightNews
banner
nancydollar.bsky.social
Nancy Dollar
@nancydollar.bsky.social
640 followers 770 following 1.2K posts
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon - Beautiful Boy 1980).
I love Aotearoa.
God Defend Te Tiriti!
Posts Replies Media Videos
nancydollar.bsky.social
Have just booked a meal at a local cafe...
How rude! 🤣🤣🤣
January 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
realgregjack.bsky.social
The Greenland takeover threats need to be seen for what they are - a diversion organised by a Russian asset - Trump. It's meant to take the world's eyes off Ukraine and the remaining 99% of the Epstein files.Makes you wonder what Vlad's got on Donald.
January 18, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
jackcraw.bsky.social
Jesus the Manage My Health website is a mess
January 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
fmacskasy.bsky.social
So...after gutting the state sector & sacking a whole bunch of staff, Minister Brown blames remaining workers for slow OIA responses.

This was predictable: gutting the statesector & blaming workers for not being able to get work done.

What did he think would happen?

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Health minister blames slow OIA responses on officials, but union points to government's job cuts
The PSA says Simeon Brown is blaming officials for slow responses, when his government's cuts are at fault.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 7, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
queenoliviaiii.com
Don’t swim if you are in Wellington. Heavy rains means the harbour and beaches are replete with the foul emission of our industrial settlements. Code brown. Poop in the water.
December 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
siouxsiew.bsky.social
This is such a good piece by @thespinoff.bsky.social showing how NZME’s (who own the Herald and Newstalk ZB) billionaire director chooses to use his money - harassing @sanjanah.bsky.social and TVNZ thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-12-... thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-12-...
Inside the weirdest trial of the year: Jim Grenon, Julian Batchelor and TVNZ
Billionaires, secrets, conspiracy theories, denials of racism, contempt of court and twists at every turn. This case had it all.
thespinoff.co.nz
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
foxylustygrover.bsky.social
Cops now getting a heckling for what Jevon McSkimming did suddenly understand how women have felt all the live long day #NZPol
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
drbex.bsky.social
Wrote something a bit longer - is still rather unfiltered and ranty - about the proposed changes to the Total Mobility scheme for disabled persons.

It's still a sh*tty proposal and now I go into this in more detail in the post:

open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
nickofnz.bsky.social
The Atlas Network has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right.

Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners.
#nzpol
Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism
The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners.
progressive.international
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
nancydollar.bsky.social
Wonderful post!
www.instagram.com/p/DRuj9txCEs...
Clarke Gayford on Instagram: "Never in 100 years did I think that my first time to the @royalalberthall would be to watch my wife, but life is weird like that. Moderated masterfully by the man himsel...
3,065 likes, 54 comments - clarkegayford on December 1, 2025: "Never in 100 years did I think that my first time to the @royalalberthall would be to watch my wife, but life is weird like that. Modera...
www.instagram.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
jarrodbaker.bsky.social
hey team I just thought of a way the Council could have saved over $400,000
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
nancydollar.bsky.social
So our corrupt govt is going to abolish Regional Councils!
The only arm of govt that specifically protects our clean water & the environment on a regional basis.
They are critical to our survival.
Another appalling attack on nature!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern #nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
nancydollar.bsky.social
I bought a flowering African Violet today.
Wish me luck!
I have officially become my Mum.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
foxylustygrover.bsky.social
Odds that Nats are planning to hard campaign on raising the super age and this KiwiSaver policy is meant to offset that in people's hearts and minds? #NZPol
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
paullecomtephoto.nz
Thank god for folk like Paula.

You don’t need me to tell y’all how vital long form journalism is to a healthy democracy. We just need to do our bit, read & try to understand others through it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
queenoliviaiii.com
Someone is going to die because of an unnoticed, or, unchallengeable, hallucination in their medical records.
sachadylan.bsky.social Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · Nov 20
'[Ethics professor Angela] Ballantyne said she was concerned that the Hawke's Bay trial - which reviewed the experience of eight clinicians using the tools - had not gone into enough depth ahead of being implemented through the country's hospitals.'
AI scribe tool rolled out to emergency departments, promises to slash clinicians' admin
While some clinicians are heralding the technology as "the way of the future", others say more evaluation is needed.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
nancydollar.bsky.social
Wonderful news!
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
lostarcnz.bsky.social
Luxon's not entirely wrong. We DO need to consider what assets we have and how best to manage them. In general, my viewpoint is that if it is critical infrastructure that we would be in serious trouble if it failed (eg NZ Railways), we shouldn't consider selling. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
Luxon calls for 'mature' conversation on asset recycling, Hipkins pledges to hold on to all state assets
The debate between political opponents was sparked by a new Treasury report.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
paullecomtephoto.nz
You only restructure on a scale this big to save money, you don't fire 140 people because they were sitting on their hands doing nothing.

The Xmas layoffs have come a little early in NZ
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
nancydollar.bsky.social
How could 36 emails sent to Police Minister have been secretly diverted by police staff in his office to the Commissioner’s office?!
All such emails would have first gone through the Minister's own admin staff who should alert the Office Manager/Snr Pvt Sec to any alarming ones!
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
nancydollar.bsky.social
Perfectly put!
foxylustygrover.bsky.social Fucking Bitch Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · Nov 10
Luxon: It's perfectly normal for a coalition partner to be slagging us off, saying Nats can't manage the economy, have driven the country right offa a cliff. I'd only expect Winston Peters to say I'm a useless shite with the leadership skills of a flea and that my head looks like sweat
#NZPol
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
foxylustygrover.bsky.social
While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them

Andrea Vance
November 9, 2025

Vance at her perfectly cynical but utterly empathetic best #NZPol
1/3 link in thread
Opinion Auckland Culture Sport Puzzles Sunday Star-Times Regions While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them Andrea Vance Andrea Vance November 9, 2025 Share Play Video 1:45 Christopher Luxon makes promise about homeless in CBD VIDEO CREDIT: David White Andrea Vance is National Affairs Editor for The Post and Sunday Star-Times. OPINION: It’s the poverty, stupid. And yet the Government seems oblivious - perhaps wilfully so - to why more people are sleeping rough. Auckland’s rough sleeper numbers have doubled in six months. The same pattern is emerging in Christchurch and Wellington. It’s no mystery, nor is it a law-and-order problem. Try a collapsing economy, policies that make it harder to get emergency accommodation, a housing system that punishes the poor while rewarding investors, overwhelmed food banks and mental health failures. The problem isn’t anti-social behaviour - it’s that people can’t afford homes. And yet. This Government’s solution is to move the symptoms out of sight. Ministers are mulling ways to move on rough sleepers from Auckland’s city centre. Property owner, landlord and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon thinks the streets look bedraggled and with the City Rail Link and the convention centre about to open, he needs the city to “look its best.” At the same time, Tourism New Zealand is spending $6.3 million to bring the Michelin Guide to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Officials think the gourmet stars will light up the economy by drawing an estimated 36,000 high-spending tourists to our shores. The government is moving fast: clearing the slums for the sommeliers. Last week, Police Minister Mark Mitchell and Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith confirmed work is under way to empower law enforcement – police, Māori Wardens, or other agents – to ask homeless people to move on from public spaces. Luxon insisted no Cabinet decisions have been made. But Mitchell, caught letting the cat out of the bag, confirmed that Goldsmith is drafting a bill with input from a retail advisory group. That group isn’t dominated by social workers or housing advocates; rather dairy owners, liquor store operators, Michael Hill managers, and lobbyists Retail NZ. Mitchell says the aim is to take them to a place of safety. But funding cuts means that place doesn’t exist. Emergency housing is full and mental health and addiction services are stretched. I get the political calculation. A move on law is easy to sell: a tidy fix to make inner cities feel safer and more orderly, with just enough punitive scapegoat-ery to satisfy the base. It’s the kind of cheap idea governments turn too when they’ve run out of them. Like the policy that kicks in this month, targeting young people, the very demographic hardest hit by unemployment. From November 2026, many 18-and 19-year-olds will be ineligible for Jobseeker Support if their parents earn above $65,529 a year. It’s meant to incentivise them to find work, despite youth unemployment hitting 15.2% and the NEET rate rising to 13.8%. The policy could affect over 4,000 teenagers. The logic is perverse. The Government punishes young people for being unemployed while presiding over an economy that cannot generate enough full-time work. Meanwhile, rents – at least on paper – are finally softening. (Although, Median weekly rents remain eye-watering: $650 in Auckland, $567 in Wellington, $532 in Christchurch.) But rents aren’t falling isn’t because we’re all suddenly feeling flush. It’s largely a result of young people leaving cities, a cooling rental market, and slow wage growth. Even with tiny dips, the vast majority of people struggling to find shelter cannot suddenly afford a home.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
nancydollar.bsky.social
OMG Plur1bus on Apple is simply too good!
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
nancydollar.bsky.social
A lovely obit about a lovely man. He'll be greatly missed.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Winemaker Tim Finn a man who left a ‘legacy of excellence’
Obituary: For most people, the direction we take in life is influenced by someone who opens your eyes to the uniqueness of something we may have had a passing interest in. For Neil Hodgson, that perso...
www.thepress.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Reposted by Nancy Dollar
queenoliviaiii.com
Petition of Bevan O’Connor: Withdraw the Regulatory Standards Bill because nearly every submission opposed it, yet you know this Government plans to pass it anyway. Please sign and share widely.

petitions.parliament.nz/212f27b2-98f...
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM